Bob Backlund Quotes

I'm making the comeback of the century.

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Children
  • Eyes

• These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Enemies
  • Terrorists

• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Eyes

• Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Why

• So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Enemy

• We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cities
  • Areas
  • Deadline

• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  

  George Eliot
  • Friends
  • Trouble
  • Labour

• I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Crew
  • Flights
  • Interactions

• The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Emotions
  • Benefits
  • Skills

• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Character
  • Understanding
  • Lonely

• Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

  

  Nitin Nohria
  • Courage
  • Act
  • Leaders

• I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Everyone
  • Century
  • Underdog

• Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Hate
  • I Hate You
  • Let It Go

• I'm making the comeback of the century.

  

  Bob Backlund
  • Century
  • Comebacks